How will we show the results of our information search? How will you go beyond the information found in sources, in addition to learning transferable skills?
- Copyright friendly resources (thanks to Librarian Dr. J. Valenza)
- Animoto makes a music video from still shots, including text
- Use Wordle to check how many times certain words are used in a report, paper, or essay. Are words overused? Underused? Too many forms of "to be"?
- Online publishing sources
- SlideShare (requires email to login)
- ToonDoo cartoon creator
- Picnik (simple photo editing) This site is going to be discontinued.
- VoiceThread digital storytelling A wiki of ideas for using VoiceThread in the classroom: edTech VISION
- Create a podcast
- GoogleEarth to create tours for literature or history and to study patterns
- LetterPop newsletter publishing online
- Microsoft Movie MakerThis is already on WAWM computers. Look for it in your applications.
- Microsoft Photostory for creating digital stories with photos. For pcs only.
- Apple iMovie
- Glogster.com to make a multimedia collage to illustrate vocab or concepts
- Blabberize.com animates a headshot to appear to speak, for foreign language or other recoreded text
- Capzles.com for multimedia timelines
- Museum Box Using Museum Box students can organize images, text, videos, links, and audio clips about any topic that they're researching. When completed , students' "boxes" become digital dioramas.